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Black Friday 2015
We’d love to announce our Black Friday and Cyber Monday discount 2015. To get the 20% discount, please use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2015 while subscribing or renewing. This coupon code is valid from today to the end of next Tuesday (01 Dec 2015) and it is applied to all subscription levels.

Solidres 0.9.3 released

We are happy to announce the release of Solidres v0.9.3, this is a maintenance release with several new features. We also release 2 brand new plugins: Currency (for setting automatic currency rate update) & TripConnect (for those who want to join our Beta program for TripAdvisor Instant Booking), the 2 new plugins are available for all active subscribers. Last but not least, we also introduce 03 major new features for Hub plugin: Subscription (allow you to charge your partners for listing asset in your site), Commission (set up commission rates and calculate the commission so that you can charge your partners later) and Asset Approval (admin will review submitted assets and allow them to be published or not), these new features offer Solidres users a variety of ways to generate income.

Solidres v0.9.3
  • New feature: New update notification in side bar and System page. Next to the version number in the top of side navigation bar in backend, you will see a new icon, when new Solidres version is released, this icon will change and include a link to Joomla updater screen which allow you to upgrade.
  • New feature: New reservations which is not checked by admin will be showed as unread. There is a new option “Reservation live refresh”, when turned on Solidres will automatically detect for the number of unread reservations and show that number in the side navigation bar so that you can get notified easily (beside emails).
  • New feature: New field “Origin” is added to reservation table, it allows you to note where this reservation comes from (direct booking, phone, email, channels etc)
  • The reservation edit screen is refined, allow editing and linking more fields.
  • Fix an issue when the stay length is not calculated correctly
  • Fix some language installation
  • Mark standard tariff as optional when Complex Tariff plugin is installed
  • Add French translation for Check Availability module
  • Fix Google Plus link text in emails templates
  • Fix child quantity drop down which show incorrect quantity
  • Fix HTTP/HTTPS issue with map marker.
Hub plugin v0.5.0
  • New feature: Subscription
  • New feature: Commission
  • New feature: Asset Approval
  • New feature: Support Joomla access levels for asset
  • New feature: Add search box for media manager
  • Fix pagination issue when menu is configured to show assets from certain location or categories
  • Fix JS error related to Statistics plugin
  • Fix search results does not take room occupancy options into calculation
  • Fix issue with array dereferencing that PHP 5.3 does not support
  • Fix check in and check out dates validation
Currency plugin v0.1.0
  • Support automatic update currency exchange rate (with one click button in backend or via cron job/schedule task)
TripConnect v0.1.0 (for Beta testing, if you want to join please contact us via email)
  • Allows hotel to participate in TripAdvisor Instant Booking.

Useful links for you

Update notes

  • Backup your website (files + database).
  • Download 0.9.3 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your current version. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
  • If you are subscribers, please make sure all plugins/modules are re-installed for best compatibility with new version.
  • If you are using a 3rd templates that have override files for Solidres, make sure they are compatible with new version.

Solidres v0.9.2 released

One of the target that we mentioned in previous blog post has been completed: a brand new design for our official website, the new website has a modern look, better responsive, reorganize content for better navigation, a total new support ticket system to replace the old one.

In addition, we’ve also released Solidres v0.9.2 and many updates to our commercial plugins, details below:

Solidres v0.9.2
  • New feature: Add inline reservation’s state changing in reservation listing view.
  • New feature: Support asset’s Joomla access level in front end
  • New feature: Show tariff description in adjoining tariffs
  • Improve responsive of field coupon in front end, increase the width of tariff select button, unify date format for checkin and checkout dates
  • Improve support for RTL language
  • Fix deleting media issue in Media Manager
  • Fix export reservation to CSV
  • Fix reservation cancel button in backend
  • Fix option “Child room cost” for Package tariff type
  • Fix single supplement feature for child
  • Fix PHP fatal error for some hosting that does not enable function apache_get_modules
  • Fix saving coupon with customer group “All”
  • Allow assign partner by clicking on username
  • Show discounted price in front end
  • Fix coupon issue that apply to incorrect checkin and checkout
  • Fix room type and room empty trash
Hub plugin v0.4.2
  • Add ability to sort results by feedback’s scores
  • Add ability to show category’s description in front end search result page
  • Fix regression that check in and check out dates are emptied out
Statistics plugin v0.4.0
  • Add ability to create quick booking directly from dashboard (in addition to limit booking).
  • Improve responsive for chart
  • Support booking per night and per day
Feedback plugin v0.3.0
  • Allow saving feedback manually from backend
  • Improve support for RTL language
User plugin v0.9.4
  • Fix PHP fatal error in front end customer dashboard
  • Reset customer group filtering to “All” by default
Limit Booking v0.3.1
  • Use the same date format in Solidres Options
Invoice plugin v0.3.3
  • Improve support for RTL language

Useful links for you

Update notes

  • Backup your website (files + database).
  • Download 0.9.2 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your current version. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
  • If you are subscribers, please make sure all plugins/modules are re-installed for best compatibility with new version.
  • If you are using a 3rd templates that have override files for Solidres, make sure they are compatible with new version.

Solidres development updates September 2015

2015 has been going well for us. There are still 4 months to go with many exiting things ahead and today we’d like to give an overview of them:

Channel Manager: yes we are working on Channel Manager feature for Solidres and it will be a killer feature for Solidres’s users, especially for those who have been waiting for a long time. We hope to introduce a beta phrase soon, please check back regularly for more news.

TripAdvisor Instant Booking: the beta phrase is still opened, if you want to join, we still have some available slots for you. The beta phrase is opened for all active Solidres’s subcribers, just contact us via our email.

Subscription and Commission feature for Hub plugin: these new features will help you to monetise your partners through subscription packages or commissions rates that you defined.

New Solidres.com website: with the joining of Solidres for WordPress, our current website becomes too small to host a party for 2 great friends like Joomla and WordPress, it needs a major overhault. The work on the new website is still in progress and we hope to launch it within this year.

New Joomla template for Solidres: our new Joomla template has been gone through the development stage and it is being tested before launching. It will join a great collection of Joomla templates developed by Solidres.com and our template partners.

Solidres v0.9.1 is released

Solidres v0.9.1, a maintenance release of v0.9.x series and updates to other plugins.modules have been released. Please see the full change log below:

Solidres v0.9.1
  • Clear room quantity options after reservation is made
  • Fix deletion issue between feedback and reservation
  • Auto detect when system has no default asset or more than 1 default asset
  • Fix hard code http url for google map api
  • Fix typo in Italian translation
  • Restrict searching for availability for past dates
  • Add notice to detect some servers that do not enable Apache’s mod_deflate
Hub plugin v0.4.1
  • Fix front end amend booking
  • Fix various PHP notices in front end
  • Restrict searching for availability for past dates
  • Add ability to set reservation note for partners
Feedback plugin v0.2.0
  • Add responsive notification emails
  • Add missing upgrade procedure
  • Fix feedback editing in backend where some fields not loaded correctly
  • Fix saving feedback in front end
  • Fix language loading issue
  • Store log in Joomla log folder
  • Show notice to let customer know that the invitation is is still valid or not
  • Fix JS error when managing feedback from front end.
  • Don’t allow editing customer from front end
User plugin v0.9.3
  • Fix front end reservation cancellation issue
Invoice plugin v0.3.2
  • Fix PHP error when asset’s logo file can not be opened.
Advanced Search module v0.4.1
  • Always load bootstrap framework
  • Remove empty space in search by name
  • Shorten some language strings for better display in some templates
Feedback module v0.2.0
  • Add ability to display feedbacks by columns
  • Add ability to specify display feedbacks by feedback’s ID

Also, our template partner JoomShaper has been released their second dedicated Joomla template for Solidres named Resort, check it out here.

Useful links for you

Update notes

  • Backup your website (files + database).
  • Download 0.9.1 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your current version. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
  • If you are subscribers, please make sure all plugins/modules are re-installed for best compatibility with new version.
  • If you are using a 3rd templates that have override files for Solidres, make sure they are compatible with new version.

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